Red Armor Hall Branch Hall.
Palace Master's Living Palace.
Top floor.
Ying Beibei, former secretary to the director of the Anhua City Patrol Department and now the Vice Palace Master's private secretary, strode briskly through the lofty corridor in a beautiful uniform.
Ten-meter-tall Stone Pillars stood along both sides of the corridor, each surface carved with exquisitely detailed reliefs.
In her estimation, they were masterpieces of art.
As far as the eye could see.
There were no fewer than a hundred Stone Pillars. If any one of them were put up for sale, wealthy magnates would surely pay a fortune for it.
"What extravagance!"
Ying Beibei stepped across the luxurious thick carpet and murmured softly.
Thinking back on the experiences of the past half year, the young woman still felt an intense sense of unreality.
At first.
She had merely been one of the reserve secretaries at the Anhua City Patrol Department.
The so-called "reserve" meant candidates being groomed as secretaries for future directors.
At the time, the Patrol Department had three reserve secretaries. All were attractive, skilled in every manner of service, and proficient in all the department's operations.
As an aside.
Of those three qualifications, appearance was the most important consideration, because more than ninety percent of directors' secretaries ultimately became their private women.
The Patrol Department had always had a saying that was joking, yet not entirely a joke: reserve secretaries were really reserve wives, or reserve lovers.
Later.
The youngest and most accomplished genius director in Anhua City's history had been transferred from the Black Armor Army to the Patrol Department, and she had been fortunate enough to be chosen by the new director.
In just a few months, the series of formidable measures the new director implemented and the dazzling achievements he attained had completely